Yeah, he generated a bunch of good will that could've led to him making a ton of money, but he's quickly squandering it.

If the guy were present in the community, talking with his userbase, doing bounties for feature requests instead of just being silent hoping for bounties to fix bugs, he could be getting a ton more. The community of garnet users exploded overnight because there was a big demand for it and he created something that met that demand, now it seems he is just letting it falter. Sometimes the wrong Dev can really fuck things up.

Yeah I don't have LN, I've got XMR though, but don't worry about it I like to he helpful.

Yeah it's unfortunate, but I'm still using it. I guess we are stuck with it until we can get this crap removed from Garnet.

What youre looking for is PoE (power over Ethernet) cameras, they get powered by the Ethernet cable. You run the cable, plug in the camera and youre done. Then if youre worried about the camera talking to a server somewhere, put the switch all the cameras are plugged into behind a firewall that blocks them from connecting to anything outside of your network.

Weird, I can't see them, the lists are empty for me, but I know they're there because I have found content being hidden from me in there.

They're gonna get sued by Amazon and this declaration will not stand to scrutiny in court. After chevron especially, but generally, hiring contractors is not the same as hiring employees. Trucking companies do it all the time. The only time you can really get in trouble doing it is when the terms of your contract are similar to those of an employment contract, for example paying by the hour or requiring a set number of hours of work and things like that, basically if it's obvious youre creating an employment contract but not calling it that to avoid labor law.

Let me ask you, how do you even see the words?

So your example, it's already a solved problem in many clients, you can zap anonymously and only send an LN payment. Someone that publishes a note with it (makes the zap public) expects the network to be able to see that; they do it on purpose. They're responsible for their own security at that point.

As far as the ability to permanently delete notes published to relays, we have already gone back and forth on that before. You can make a NIP09, a relay can claim to obey it, but there's absolutely no way to guarantee or verify that your note isn't still out there after you've published it. And that goes for everything, not just nostr. You can't unsay something you've said out loud within earshot of other people. Your only option is to be careful what you publish. Anything else is nothing more than a false sense of security.

You say "it's posts cannot be deleted." I'm curious if youre advocating a way for someone to permanently delete someone else's posts from the network?

It's not the relays. Its amethyst. Amethyst has a spam filtering tool built in that allows you to keep a block list and a blocked words list, but it also distributes a list that is in there that you can't see, which is unethical IMO. I figured this out when I tried to talk to someone that was blocked in there, I tried to unblock him but he kept getting auto blocked. Blocks are put together from user reports of accounts. The whole thing is pretty opaque. If they want to distribute lists they should be visible to users so they can remove users and words from blocklists.

Since garnet just merges upstream and does not change any of this functionality it inherits these features. I've considered opening an issue to make word and block lists visible, but I wanted to see some other issues closed out first so as not to overwhelm the maintainer. There was an amethyst fork a while back that I used that took that stuff out, but it is now unmaintained. Personally I'd just make them visible, since I like avoiding spam and CP and whatever else and I like the collaborative approach to filtering that amethyst does, nostr is wide open wrt spam as long as relays and clients don't implement PoW, but I should be able to see what I'm being prevented from seeing by default so I can decide if I want to see it or not. Imagine they put "Monero" in that hidden words list, that would break garnet, it should be a priority to make that stuff visible and editable by users.

+1 for a specification. I may take it up some time soon after I get some other pending projects done.

Oh I'm with you, I am very upset about all this stuff going on on society also. We share grievances with the way things work right now. But I think I know what causes them and what the solutions are. The cause isn't capitalism, it's government manipulation of markets, and the solution isn't communism, it's the opposite. Remember when people could afford to go to the doctor? That was when people just paid the doctor for services like any other merchant. Same with education. It is only after governments got involved and these inefficiencies were created and insurance and guaranteed loans and stuff were made inseparable from the industries via regulation that we find ourselves in this situation. You can see the same thing with housing, withinimum square footage requirements and stuff like that, basically any unaffordable thing that people need is unaffordable because of regulations protecting incumbents and preventing new entrants from competing.

That would be my guess.

So, how does a system provide for the basic needs of everybody? Who produces these basic needs? And then, if your basic needs are met such that you don't have to do anything for them, what do you do to get your extra? Produce someone else's basic needs and get a profit from that? So who pays that profit if not the guy who's basic needs are met?

Do you see how this concept doesn't hold water?

I think his point was to demonstrate lack of internal consistency, and I think he's being facetious to try to demonstrate that the theory around it is a bunch of inconsistent corner case justifications and there's no rhyme or reason to any of it.

I am asking honest questions, but I am doing so to try to understand *your* reasoning, not to understand communism, I already thoroughly understand it. And I'm hoping, in having to articulate answers to my questions, you'll understand it more clearly and come to the same conclusion I did, that it is senseless. I don't like to do the usual thing where I shit on people, I like to have sincere discussion and maybe I learn something and maybe other people do. I am always open to the possibility that it isn't senseless and that I am wrong.

Explaining it to people while claiming you don't agree with it is like explaining the rationale behind astrology while claiming you don't agree with it; if you don't agree with it it is because it makes no sense to you at all. It's really impossible to explain methodically or rationally something that doesn't make any sense.

So we have talked about this before elsewhere, but what's the difference between listing this with a disclaimer and listing swap services that sometimes KYC and even sometimes hold funds until KYC? Isn't listing those also giving a false sense of security to inexperienced users?

Not saying this hoping you'll delist them, I think a disclaimer is enough. But, I also think listing someone that sells BTC or XMR for KYC'd fiat payment processor money is perfectly fine with a disclaimer also. And honestly I think it is less risky than listing swap services that hold funds for KYC at random.

You've installed the testnet version of garnet by mistake. Nobody can tip you until you use the mainnet version. You'll know it's the mainnet version when your address in your description starts with a 4.

It's not a stablecoin.

Would you invest your time in something, in other words sell your labor, for just your basic needs to be covered from it? Don't you want something extra for your time?

Isn't it my decision if I've sold my labor for what I think it is worth?

So all of this is just a way to keep people from making a profit?

But, we do that now with just about everything and stuff gets produced just fine. People don't slack off because they have a personal investment in their work, no threat of Siberia required. If there's a shortage, people are incentivized to produce because prices go up and it's profitable, no central planning required. Wouldn't you rather have a self organizing, distributed system than one with all kinds of administration overhead and central points of failure and misaligned incentives?

You say you're not advocating it, just explaining it, but can't you see how it's senseless?

But that's what we have right now, its called capitalism!